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Cuban-Americans are beginning to understand their long-standing roots and traditions in the United States that reach back over a century prior to 1959. This is the first book-length confirmation of those beginnings, and its places the Cuban hero and revolutionary thinker JosÉ MartÍ within the political and socioeconomic realities of the Cuban communities in the United States of that era. By clarifying MartÍ’s relationship with those communities, Gerald E. Poyo provides a detailed portrait of the exile centers and their role in the growth and consolidation of nineteenth-century Cuban nationalism. Poyo differentiates between the development of nationalist sentiment among liberal elites and popular groups and reveals how these distinct strains influenced the thought and conduct of MartÍ and the successful Cuban revolution of the 1890s.

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A fine study of the consolidation of nationalist ideas in Cuban revolutionary thought among exiles in the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. . . . The thoughtful work of an able scholar. <br>--Jorge I. Dominguez, Hispanic American Historical Review

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